Category Archives: open access

Two years of achievements within the ‘SCOSS family’ (and it’s not over yet!) 

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

In March, The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) celebrated, together with the generous funders and the projects involved (including OpenCitations), the achievement of an amazing milestone: a total of 4 million Euros raised so far for supporting … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations and EC funding: OpenAIRE Nexus and RISIS2

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Chiara Di Giambattista

The incentives for new OpenCitations innovative solutions Two years ago, in their canonical 2020 QSS paper on OpenCitations, Silvio Peroni and David Shotton anticipated the creation of the new database, OpenCitations Meta, able to “offer a faster and richer service” … Continue reading →

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OpenCitations receives the Open Publishing Award in Open Data

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

“What role does ‘open’ play in making this project special?” This apparently easy, but not banal, question was asked in the Open Publishing Awards nomination form, and at OpenCitations we prefaced our answer to it by stating “For OpenCitations, ‘open’ … Continue reading →

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Coverage of open citation data approaches parity with Web of Science and Scopus

Posted on October 27, 2021 by David Shotton

Guest blog post by Alberto Martín-Martín, Facultad de Comunicación y Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Spain <albertomartin@ugr.es> In this post, as a contribution to Open Access Week, Alberto Martín-Martín shares his comparative analysis of COCI and other sources of open citation … Continue reading →

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Open Access Tage 2021: valuable insights from the libraries in the German-speaking region 

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

On September 27, OpenCitations’ director Silvio Peroni, together with Niels Stern (DOAB/OAPEN) and James MacGregor (PKP), held the online workshop “How Open Infrastructure Benefits Libraries” during the Open Access Tage 2021. Open-Access-Tage (Open Access Days) are the annual central platform for the steadily growing Open Access and … Continue reading →

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The Initiative for Open Abstracts: Celebrating our first anniversary

Posted on October 6, 2021 by David Shotton

Authors: Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, David Shotton In this blog post, Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton, co-founders with colleagues of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, celebrate the first anniversary of the initiative. On September 24 last year, the … Continue reading →

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Save the dates: OpenCitations October events 

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

With the numerous September events in which the OpenCitations’ directors have recently been involved behind us, it is now time to announce the participation of our director Silvio Peroni in two October events.  On Wednesday 6th, Silvio will take part … Continue reading →

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About engagement and evanescence: OpenCitations at the Open Science Fair 2021

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

Community, governance, and shared goals: these are the key concepts that you would have heard discussed, had you listened in on September 21 at the Open Science Fair 2021 to the sessions entitled “ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations as the new frontier … Continue reading →

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Academia’s missing references

Posted on September 23, 2021 by David Shotton

No-one is quite sure of the total number of scholarly publications within the global corpus. Indeed that number will be strongly influenced by the degree to which, in addition to books and journal articles, one includes within the definition of … Continue reading →

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Save the dates: OpenCitations’ September events 

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Chiara Di Giambattista

We are happy to announce OpenCitations’ participation in a number of online conferences and events during the next few weeks. Our directors Silvio Peroni and David Shotton will be speaking at the Open Science Fair 2021, the OASPA Conference 2021 … Continue reading →

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